Teaching here is amazing. I love standing here in the middle of the class. I used to teach, it’s my job, it’s my work. And I can’t sit in the corner without doing anything… I am so happy because I can do something for my people.

I want to become a nurse. I love to help and care for people. At home, I would always take care of anyone who got sick in my family. I would bring them medicine, make them tea, and stay with them all night.

Two months into the academic year, he went to the university in the morning, just like he always did. Then, he got a call on his cellphone. His friend screamed into the phone: a missile landed on your house.

I didn’t expect that I would fall in love with him, and certainly didn’t expect that I’d marry him. We were close for three or four months, just beginning to build our relationship. He left to Europe 3 days after we got married religiously.

They caught me once with cigarettes and they arrested me. They put me in a room with three dead bodies for 20 days. For the first three days I couldn’t sleep. I was close to losing my mind; I was so afraid.